Young Adult / High School (16–18 years)

• Author(s): J. Patrick Williams | Sean Q. Hendricks | W. Keith Winkler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General Since tabletop fantasy role-playing games emerged in the ...

• Author(s): Ileen A. DeVault • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaIn the late nineteenth century, most jobs were strictly segregated by sex. And yet, despite their separation at...

• Author(s): Suzanne Guerlac • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of ...

• Author(s): Ruth MacKay • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographySince the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identif...

• Author(s): Jimmie E. Cain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh In Victorian England, a marked fear of Russia prevailed in the government and the public. As a ...

• Author(s): Francoise Pfaff | Franoise Pfaff | Franaoise Pfaff • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismEmphasizing post-independent films released sin...

• Author(s): James Fisher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Essays Playwright Tony Kushner is a voice of intellectualism, neo-socialism, gay activism and political outrage in an era when th...

• Author(s): Fred M. Grandinetti • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - GeneralIt's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then agai...

• Author(s): Gina Fournier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The entertainment industry is all too much a man's world, with Hollywood at its macho center. The...

• Author(s): Peter Sekirin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet Union Throughout his life, Leo Tolstoy demonstrated a fascination for Americans, a feeling that was ...

• Author(s): Shahla Mirbakhtyar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism In spite of international award-winning productions, Iran's cinema is underexposed. Because ...

• Author(s): Tom H. Hastings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Law Enforcement Terrorism, which by definition targets civilians, is unacceptable, but a violent response to violence usually ...

• Author(s): Jared Lobdell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy Used by C.S. Lewis himself, the term "scientifiction" is revived here as it once encompassed not o...

• Author(s): Ruth Milkman | Kim Voss • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations - General"In order to recruit new members on a scale that would be required to significantly rebuild union power,...

• Author(s): William F. McNeil • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Gabby Harnett is believed by many to be the greatest catcher of all time. This work chronicles Hartnett...

• Author(s): Chen | Howard Goldblatt | Perry Link • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)Praise for the first edition: ". . . in the great tradition of Orwell and ...

• Author(s): Andrew Lindsay • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies Professional sports in America offer numerous examples of equa...

• Author(s): Gary Iseminger • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsHow can we understand art and its impact? Gary Iseminger argues that the function of the practice of art and the in...

• Author(s): Graham a. Cosmas | Center of Military History | United States Department of the Army • Publisher: Military Bookshop • Publisher Imprint: Military Bookshop • BISAC: Military - Vietnam WarWith full color maps and illustrations. Center ...

• Author(s): Gerald Leinwand • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American Government - General Political corruption is easy to define--the use of public office for private gain--but it isn't ...

• Author(s): James Phelan • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives including ...

• Author(s): Nicolai Petro • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralThe Novgorod region of Russia is a sparsely populated area about the size of Ireland better known f...

• Author(s): Georg Leidenberger • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: GeneralBy the turn of the twentieth century, Chicago, site of the Haymarket affair and the Pullman st...

• Author(s): R. V. Kelly 2. • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture This book is about the fastest growing form of electronic game in the world--the Massively Multiplayer Online R...

• Author(s): Michael Dunne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The musical has been called "the most popular form of entertainment in the world." This work examines the subject...

• Author(s): Gunnar Liestol | Andrew Morrison | Terje Rasmussen • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Media StudiesInterdisciplinary essays on the relationship between practice and theory in new media.Arguing that "first ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Watt • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralIn the broadest treatment yet of suicide in Europe during the period 1500-1800, 11 authors combine elem...

• Author(s): Mario Liverani | Zainab Bahrani | Marc Van de Mieroop • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyThe essays included in this volume analyze important historical texts fr...

• Author(s): Michel Chauveau | David Lorton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: WomenCleopatra: kohl and vipers, barges and thrones, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. We have long been s...

• Author(s): Jean Allman • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Black Studies (Global)Everywhere in the world there is a close connection between the clothes we wear and our political expressi...

• Author(s): Jeanette M. Berard | Klaudia Englund • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - History & Criticism Who were the 35 actors that performed with stars Bud Abbott and Lou Coste...

• Author(s): James D. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Though baseball would eventually come to embody the American spirit, in the nineteenth century onlookers reg...

• Author(s): John W. Yolton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernUsing his intimate knowledge of John Locke's writings, John W. Yolton shows that Locke comprehe...

• Author(s): Leon Nielsen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books This reference work covers the supernatural and speculative fiction published by Arkham House Publishers, Inc., of Sauk Cit...

• Author(s): Leroy Lad Panek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction Dashiell Hammett, like most successful writers, honed his skills in the trenches. Long before ...

• Author(s): Angus M. Gunn • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Science & Technology In United States public schools, the content being taught in all subjects is dete...

• Author(s): Donald R. Wells • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Pacific Coast League had emerged from the Depression of the 1930s in fairly good condition. There were ...

• Author(s): Phyllis T. Dircks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Puppets & Puppetry Puppetry has become a significant force in contemporary theatre and thousands of puppets from various...

• Author(s): Masha LaFont • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asian - General The illicit traffic of art is an important problem that affects modern life all over the world. This work address...

• Author(s): Valerie Ramseyer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe Transformation of a Religious Landscape paints a detailed picture of the sheer variety of early mediev...

• Author(s): Ray Hagen | Laura Wagner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General No delicate ingenues, these. In the middle of the twentieth century, the Mary Pickfords of the movie w...

• Author(s): Jonathan Daly • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russia & the Former Soviet UnionWhy did the imperial Russian government fail to prevent revolution in ...

• Author(s): Catherine Labio • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: AestheticsWhat epistemic assumptions framed eighteenth-century thinkers' speculations regarding origins? What, if anything, ...

• Author(s): Douglas Brode • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Though Elvis Presley's music is widely credited as starting a sea change in American popular cult...

• Author(s): Bob Wilbanks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the stor...

• Author(s): Allan R. Ellenberger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Among Hollywood's child stars are some talented children, normal and pleasant who find fame in film. Margaret O'B...

• Author(s): Kathy Lavezzo • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Medieval"The various and contradictory signs of English otherworldliness offered medieval writers a remarkably elasti...

• Author(s): Carolyn Casey Craig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies In the first century of the coveted Pulitzer Prizes, only 11 women have won the prize for drama: Zona Gale...

• Author(s): Toru Umakoshi | Philip G. Altbach | Philipg Altbach • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: HigherSince 1980, higher education access and endorsement have grown more dr...

• Author(s): Christopher Preble • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyJohn F. Kennedy owed his victorious bid for the presidency--as well as hi...

• Author(s): Mitali P. Wong | Zia Hasan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - Asian American This study establishes connections between the themes and methodologies of writers within...

• Author(s): Bruce A. Rubenstein • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History When the White Sox met the Astros in the 2005 World Series, it marked only the second time Chicago team...

• Author(s): H. Arlo Nimmo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The Andrews Sisters, the legendary singing trio of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s are the most successful female singing gr...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Bidinger • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The ethical dimension of autobiography is emerging as an important area of study. Scholars now recognize that an au...

• Author(s): Robert C. Marsh | Norman Pellegrini • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - OperaChicago's love affair with opera began early, in 1850, wh...

• Author(s): Ronald R. Krebs • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsLeaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a "school for the nation." Debates over who ser...

• Author(s): Randy Rasmussen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Orson Welles, a self-conscious storyteller who often invited his audience to question the ...

• Author(s): Randy Palmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Without a big budget, special effects team, or professional actors and crew members, Herschell ...

• Author(s): Kevin L. Stoehr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This book explores the idea of nihilism, emphasized by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, ...

• Author(s): Joe Donahue | Erik Trump • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralZoos have found themselves continually under fire in recent de...